Sunday, May 4th, 2008
The Lake Minnetonka Half Marathon was my first try at the 13.1-mile distance, and I was bound and determined not to repeat the rookie mistakes I've made in previous races. In last year's Run For Oromia 10k and Twin Cities Marathon, I felt good at the beginning and started way ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Seen on TechCrunch:
Heads up YouTube, Flickr announced today that it has added video capabilities. Note that for now only Pro subscribers can upload video. This was just in time for me, because I was trying to decide how I was going to share a short video that I took on ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
We got our first family computer last fall, a 24" Apple iMac. It had been running like a champ until a strange hardware problem popped up a few weeks ago. It didn't boot properly a few times, and when I investigated further I found that the system was reporting that ...
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
I did it. My finishing time was 4:45 which I'm pretty happy with considering the brutal heat. I'd hoped to finish closer to 4:15, but it was 80°+ with a dew point near 70° and I knew that I'd have no chance of going that fast. What weird weather. It's ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
We got our first family computer on Tuesday, and my boys are pretty excited. I've got a couple laptops, but they're for work and I don't let the kids use them. Now, though, we're ready to roll. I've downloaded Scratch, Google Earth, and Sketchup, and I'm looking forward to working ...
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
If there's a distinguishing characteristic of educational reform, and reform efforts in general, it's the lack of patience in sustaining difficult effort over time. We criticize students who can't seem to exercise delayed gratification, but don't seem to notice that educators, government officials, and the general public aren't any better.
Reference: ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Here are links to all of the sites I'll be mentioning in my talk at IL-TCE on Thursday and Friday.
Blogging
The Savvy Technologist
Lewis Elementary School (Principal Tim Lauer)
Getting started with blogging: Wordpress.com, Blogger
Google Maps mashups
Housing Maps
Chicago Crime
Tag searching
IL-TCE postings
...
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Here are links to all of the sites I'll be mentioning in my talk at TIES on Tuesday.
Blogging
Mabryonline.org with Dr. Tim Tyson
Lewis Elementary School (Principal Tim Lauer)
Google Maps mashups
Housing Maps
Chicago Crime
Google Sketchup examples
Technorati searching
TIES postings
Blog posts tagged "ties2006"
...
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Here are the links for the open source tools that I mention in my talk at the TIES Conference.
Moodle, online learning management system
Audacity, audio editing
Inkscape, vector drawing
Scribus, desktop publishing
OpenOffice.org, office suite
NeoOffice, Mac version of OpenOffice.org
Linux, free Unix-like OS
Creative Commons
Open Source
Flickr, online photo sharing
Wikipedia, world's biggest encyclopedia
VLC, media player
Drupal, content management ...
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Sunday, November 5th, 2006
Blake Ross is something of a wunderkind. He starting working for Netscape at age 15 and cofounded the Firefox project soon after. Not content to stop there, an article in IEEE Spectrum describes Ross's latest project called Parakey. Parakey is an attempt to obviate the need for separate desktop ...
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Monday, September 4th, 2006
It looks like Flickr has started expanding its features by integrating more tightly with its parent company Yahoo!. They've recently added the ability to geotag photos by dragging and dropping onto a Yahoo! Maps interface. Once you've got some photos geotagged you can see links to all your photos on ...
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
Paul Cantrell is a blogger and music podcaster who also happens to be a software engineer. (I wonder which one is his superhero alter ego?) He spoke at last Saturday's MinneBar conference on "The Internet and the Future of Art." It was an interactive session which made things a bit ...
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